LABOUR LEADER SHOT
FOUND DEAD IN STREET OUTRAGE IN MINNEAPOLIS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
MINNEAPOLIS, November 18. (Received November 19, at 11 a.m.) Mr Patrick Corcoran, a well-known American Federation of Labour member of the Mjddle West, was found shot dead, with his' face in the snow, in the street near his home. The gossip column of a local newspaper last week said; “ A prominent Labour leader may be assassinated within a fortnight.” The writer to-day declared that he had immediately turned the information over to the police.
Mr Corcoran’s son disclosed that his father had been beaten and fired on last week, but did not recognise his assailant.
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Evening Star, Issue 22810, 19 November 1937, Page 9
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108LABOUR LEADER SHOT Evening Star, Issue 22810, 19 November 1937, Page 9
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